· Private foundation
Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION KOL AMI | $16,022 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $6,200 |
| UTAH STANDS WITH ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| SALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION | $3,250 |
| UTAH OPERA SYMPHONY | $3,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $2,500 |
| I-CLUB FUND | $2,400 |
| CEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATER | $1,500 |
| CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| ORCHESTRA IOWA | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SLSALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +40%
- CRCEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +1%
- TATHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWAone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -35%
- CKCONGREGATION KOL AMIone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UCUJA CRISIS RESPONSE UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchestra Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pinyon Montessori. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RED CEDAR CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · Bryant Foundation Inc · United Way of East Central Iowa · Baird Foundation Inc · The Slappey Family Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Mercy Medical Center
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.